Capitalism, Christianity, Selfishness and/or Self-Interest

I've usually had a pretty stock standard response to this question. Obivviously Jesus is not a capitalist and wouldn't support such a system. For all the reasons Michael Moore makes clear in his post on Huffington.

Then I read this from Michael Ruse, posting on Jesus Creed about the difference between selfishness (being self-interested at the expense of others) and self-interest (looking after yourself without expense of others). The example he uses is in teaching your kids to brush their teeth, you are teaching them to be self interested, not selfish.

At any rate, I found it interesting to read Michael Moore take a position on all this, especially within his conservative evangelical US cultural context. I had no idea he was Catholic. And as Brian McLaren points out, both himself and Michael Moore, are publishing things within the very system they are critiquing and therefore either they're oblivious to irony, or their opinions are more naunced than simply being black and white... I guess i think that a system that allows 1% of the world to own more wealth than the bottom 95% COMBINED needs to be dismantled. And quickly.